Finally, it is done. The race is over. I clocked about 2 minutes less than last year. Not as good as I had hoped, because the weather today was fantastic. But at least the timing wasn't worse than last year. That would have sucked. Running with Dipika again saved me from a worse timing. She has loads more energy than me, so it was a real struggle trying to keep up with her in the last few kilometers. But if I had run alone, I would have walked half of the last few kilometers.

[ Me and Dipika, at the Cubbon road stretch. Photo credit: Tom Cole]

What was really great this year, was that my parents and brother were visiting us in this time. Actually we had planned last year itself to get them over to see this awesome spectacle, and they really enjoyed themselves the whole time.

[ My parents, brother and us at Cubbon Park.]

My brother also took some fantastic pictures of the day, which I will put online after we come back from our trip tomorrow. :)

[Photo credit: Jamie Carter]

Due to some unexpected changes to our schedule this weekend, we just weren't in shape in the morning for the Sunday run. This week Runners High scheduled a 10k on the regular World 10k race route on Cubbon road, and I am pretty bummed about missing this. :(

We have a 12k run scheduled for next weekend in our neighborhood itself. Have never run this distance before. I really really hope things fall in place for us to make it.

After all the controversies regarding the dates and venue, the TCS World 10k dates were finally confirmed by Santhosh in a mail to the group yesterday. Time to sign up and book some tickets for folks to come watch! :)

Just now got a mail from Procam about the new name for their annual World 10k run in Bangalore. What used to be called the Sunfeast World 10k till now, will be called the TCS World 10k in 2011 at least. Also, Santhosh's rant not withstanding, the website still insists that June 5th 2011 is the day of the run, and has got actually a counter running on the website.

No details on the course of the run, as usual. However, this would be more keenly awaited this year because of the massive metro related work happening all over the traditional World 10k routes.